Sunday, July 30, 2006

This is our 90%-finished new sun-room. The wide-angle makes it seem bigger than it really is...

We booked the contractors in February. They said they would start within 12-16 weeks, and it would take about 2 weeks, with a few items being done after the initial work.

So far it has taken all of July and they still haven't quite finished. The quality of the work is good, but they don't turn up when they say they are going to; they don't come for weeks at a time; (for example) they left a complete mess then didn't turn up for two weeks. Still no electricity (a week late), the siding has needed painting for three weeks.

The whole fiasco has meant that we've not been able to go away on vacation at all (we've been planning a summer vacation since January), and now the prof goes back to teaching on August 19th...

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